RE: Dealing with disturbing content

And a shorthand anecdote that isn't mine, but comes from a public library
colleague in my state a few years back--warning of the hazards, perhaps, of
not checking basic information on a video title before jumping to
conclusions about what you're about to be, er, exposed to....

A patron came into the library looking for a video to relax at home with.
One would take it, from the title he thought he was checking out, he might
even have been considering a family viewing. He thought that title was
"National Velvet". But what it clearly was labeled was "Blue Velvet."

Turns out the borrower was a library board member, too.

(The outcome, I suspect, wasn't too unhappy though, since I never heard a
followup on fallout beyond minor embarrassment.)

> good one!>> Carol>> -----Original Message-----> From: videolib@library.berkeley.edu> [mailto:videolib@library.berkeley.edu]On Behalf Of Jerry Notaro> Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 1:29 PM> To: Multiple recipients of list> Subject: Re: Dealing with disturbing content>>> Jessica Rosner wrote:>>> Needless to say it is a slippery slope from removing Requiem for a Dream>> to removing Triumph of the Will or American Beauty>> But here are my favorite "censorship" experiences>> One of mine:>> When I was in a small, Indiana town I visited the video collection of the> local> public library often. As is all to often the case, collection development> for> media was done by a paraprofessional because no librarian wanted the job.> When I> asked her if she was going to get Personal Best, which I had been waiting> for,> she said no. After all, I am a mother," she said. My reply was, "Yes, but> your> not MY mother.">> Jerry>>